Example sentences of "if he [be] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , so that if he 's coming at twenty hundred tonight , he ca n't be |
| 2 | ‘ No — what I mean is — if he 's sitting at home while you do all the work , why is n't he happy ? |
| 3 | It troubled Alexei that the failed assassination seemed about to be dismissed as an effort at the removal of some imagined stain on family honour , and he wondered if Jotan truly believed the explanation he had offered , or if he was acting at Burun 's direction to distract Artai from the truth . |
| 4 | Connon stared down at the young man in the picture as if he was looking at a stranger and trying to analyse what made him seem vaguely familiar . |
| 5 | But his eyes were glinting , as if he was looking at something no mere human could see . |
| 6 | as if he was looking at his life and not enjoying what he saw . |
| 7 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 8 | She turned round to sec if he was laughing at one of the postcards but he was laughing at her . |
| 9 | It was hard to decide if he was laughing at her or impressed by her performance . |
| 10 | Somehow it was n't as if he was laughing at her , but rather with her — against the world . |
| 11 | Wishart felt as if he was standing at a crossroads with two paths leading into the darkness . |
| 12 | The reporter 's eyes narrowed , the flesh puckered up as if he was staring at the sun . |
| 13 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 14 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 15 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 16 | He has already told McCoist , for instance , that he would get the number of goals Rangers ' top scorer has if he were playing at Ibrox . |
| 17 | There was authority in his voice and she felt a great surge of relief , as if he were plucking at her pain and releasing it . |